Khoisan languages

id: khoisan-languages-182-7131957
title: Khoisan languages
text: The Khoisan languages are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg. Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the 20th century, they were thought to be genealogically related to each other, but this is no longer accepted. They are now held to comprise three distinct language families and two language isolates. All but two Khoisan languages are indigenous to south
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description: Group of African language families with click consonants
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoisan_languages
date created: 2001-11-29T20:10:14Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T07:20:29Z
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